I have installed suse 11.4 with gnome 3 in my MSI S270 laptop. Everything works fine apart from the wireless that has the well described problems of slow speed and connectivity issues.
The solution as described in many post over the internet is to compile the RT2500 drivers from source. I followed this post that refers to RT2500 with opensuse 10.3.
However I have problems compiling and get this message
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.37.6-0.5-obj/x86_64/default'
make -C ../../../linux-2.6.37.6-0.5 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.37.6-0.5-obj/x86_64/default/. modules
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 0 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.37.6-0.5-obj/x86_64/default'
rt2500.ko failed to build!
make: *** [module] Error 1
I think that it has to do with the configuration of the makefile which does not point correctly to opensuse 11.4 KERNDIR and MODDIR. I have tried to change this unsuccessfully.
The Makefile code is
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RT2400/RT2500 SourceForge Project - http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
Licensed under the GNU GPL
Original code supplied under license from RaLink Inc, 2004.
###########################################################################
###########################################################################
Module Name: Makefile
Abstract: Makefile for rt2500 kernel module
Revision History:
Who When What
-------- ----------- -----------------------------
MarkW 8th Dec 04 Rewrite of Makefile
AmirS 1st Jan 05 Update for gmake compat
MarkW 20th Jan 05 Fixed permissions on directory
MichalL 5th Mar 05 Module installation fixes
MarkW 29th Jul 05 Allow install dir override
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all: module
MODULE_NAME := rt2500
IF_NAME := ra0
#PATCHLEVEL := 6
#KERNDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6
#MODDIR=/lib/modules/2.6.12/extra
ifeq ($(PATCHLEVEL),)
PATCHLEVEL := $(shell uname -r | cut -d. -f2)
endif
if “uname -r” has the string “fc”, then we try to find the Fedora Core rev.
ifeq ($(findstring fc, $(shell uname -r|cut -s -d- -f2)), fc)
FCREV := $(shell uname -r|cut -s -d. -f4|cut -s -d- -f1)
endif
RESMAN_CORE_OBJS := rtmp_main.o
RESMAN_GLUE_OBJS := mlme.o connect.o sync.o assoc.o auth.o auth_rsp.o rtmp_data.o rtmp_init.o sanity.o rtmp_wep.o wpa.o md5.o rtmp_tkip.o rtmp_info.o rt2x00debug.o eeprom.o
$(MODULE_NAME)-objs := $(RESMAN_CORE_OBJS) $(RESMAN_GLUE_OBJS)
ifdef TOPDIR
obj-m += $(MODULE_NAME).o
endif
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -I$(src)
ifneq ($(FCREV),)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DFEDORA=$(FCREV)
endif
ifdef KERNDIR
KERNEL_SOURCES := $(KERNDIR)
else
KERNEL_SOURCES := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
endif
ifdef MODDIR
MODULE_ROOT := $(MODDIR)
else
MODULE_ROOT := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/extra
endif
ifdef KERNOUT
KERNEL_OUTPUT := KBUILD_OUTPUT=$(KERNOUT)
else
KERNEL_OUTPUT :=
endif
src ?= .
obj ?= .
ifeq ($(PATCHLEVEL), 4)
MODULE_OBJECT := $(MODULE_NAME).o
MODULE_CONF := /etc/modules.conf
else
MODULE_OBJECT := $(MODULE_NAME).ko
MODULE_CONF := /etc/modprobe.d/ralink
endif
ifeq ($(PATCHLEVEL), 4)
$(obj)/$(MODULE_NAME).o: $($(MODULE_NAME)-objs)
$(LD) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) -r -o $@ $($(MODULE_NAME)-objs)
endif
KBUILD_PARAMS := -C $(KERNEL_SOURCES) SUBDIRS=$(CURDIR) $(KERNEL_OUTPUT)
module:
@$(MAKE) $(KBUILD_PARAMS) ‘EXTRA_CFLAGS=$(EXTRA_CFLAGS)’ modules;
if ! -f $(MODULE_OBJECT) ]; then
echo “$(MODULE_OBJECT) failed to build!”;
exit 1;
fi
debug:
@$(MAKE) $(KBUILD_PARAMS) ‘EXTRA_CFLAGS=$(EXTRA_CFLAGS)
-DRT2500_DBG’ modules;
if ! -f $(MODULE_OBJECT) ]; then
echo “$(MODULE_OBJECT) failed to build!”;
exit 1;
fi
debugfs:
@$(MAKE) $(KBUILD_PARAMS) ‘EXTRA_CFLAGS=$(EXTRA_CFLAGS)
-DRT2500_DBG -DRT2X00DEBUGFS’ modules;
if ! -f $(MODULE_OBJECT) ]; then
echo “$(MODULE_OBJECT) failed to build!”;
exit 1;
fi
clean:
@rm -f $(RESMAN_GLUE_OBJS) $(RESMAN_CORE_OBJS) .*.{cmd,flags}
@rm -f $(MODULE_NAME).{o,ko,mod.{o,c}} built-in.o $(VERSION_HEADER) *~
@rm -fr .tmp_versions Module.symvers modules.order
modules_install:
@if ! -f $(MODULE_OBJECT) ]; then
$(MAKE) module;
fi
ifeq ($(PATCHLEVEL),4)
@echo “install ‘$(MODULE_OBJECT)’ to $(MODULE_ROOT)”
install -m 755 -o 0 -g 0 -d $(MODULE_ROOT)
install -m 644 -o 0 -g 0 $(MODULE_OBJECT) $(MODULE_ROOT)
/sbin/depmod -ae
else
@echo “2.6 module install”
make $(KBUILD_PARAMS) modules_install
/sbin/depmod -a
endif
install: modules_install
@echo “*** Update $(MODULE_CONF) alias for $(IF_NAME)”;
if -ddirname $(MODULE_CONF)]; then
if -s $(MODULE_CONF) ]; then
if ! grep -q ‘$(IF_NAME)’ $(MODULE_CONF) ; then
echo “alias $(IF_NAME) $(MODULE_NAME)” >> $(MODULE_CONF) ;
fi;
else
echo “alias $(IF_NAME) $(MODULE_NAME)” >> $(MODULE_CONF) ;
fi;
else
echo “*** Config dirdirname $(MODULE_CONF)not found” >&2;
fi
install-fedora:
if ! -f $(MODULE_OBJECT) ]; then
module;
fi
@echo “install ‘$(MODULE_OBJECT)’ to $(MODULE_ROOT)”
install -m 755 -o 0 -g 0 -d $(MODULE_ROOT)
install -m 644 -o 0 -g 0 $(MODULE_OBJECT) $(MODULE_ROOT)
/sbin/depmod -a
@if ! grep -q ‘wlan0’ /etc/modprobe.conf ; then
echo “append ‘alias wlan0 rt2500’ to /etc/modprobe.conf”;
echo “alias wlan0 rt2500” >> /etc/modprobe.conf ;
echo “options rt2500 ifname=wlan%d” >> /etc/modprobe.conf ;
fi
ifeq ($(PATCHLEVEL), 4)
include $(KERNEL_SOURCES)/Rules.make
endif
My kernel is 2.6.37.6-0.5, I did all the steps as described in the post for opensuse 10.3 (installation of header, devel etc) and the RT2500 drivers I downloaded are rt2500-cvs-2009041204
Thanks for the help